Shippen can refer to: People Edward Shippen, second mayor of Philadelphia Edward Shippen (II), wealthy merchant and government official in colonial Philadelphia Edward Shippen (III), lawyer, judge, government official, and prominent figure in colonial and post-revolutionary Philadelphia John Shippen, African-American golfer Peggy Shippen, second wife of Benedict Arnold Robert Shippen, English academic administrator at the University of Oxford William Shippen Sr., represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress William Shippen, Jr., the second Surgeon General of the Continental Army William Shippen (MP), English Tory Member of Parliament Places Shippen Township, Cameron County, Pennsylvania Shippen Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania